The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1928, Page 1

NEW TAX PROGRAM IS SUBMITTED STEAMER IS DISPATCHED FOR WILKINS ;' . » **Prisoner Slips Through 7 \ A ’ » » (o - - . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXI, NO. 4772, JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928. "CHAS. SINCLAIR BREAKS OUT OF " JAIL; AT LARGE by 13 Inch Hole in Federal Jail Sinclair, who was tenced to serve two years in the Federal jail and pay a fine of| §1500 by Judge T. M. Reed in the United States District Court on | December 28, after being conviet- | ed on December 14 on four count of vic n the liquor law escaped the Fede ail some time between Sunday nig and Monday morning, it was made ' known at the U. 8. fice. The time of escape is fixed by U. S. Marshal Albert White at | about 4 o'clock Monday morning | It was discovered shortly after | noon wcording to one of the jail guards, when IL L.| Faulkner, Sinclait’s attorney, call ed to see him and Sinclair failed to answer A ! The following written statement | was given out by the U. 8. Mar- shal's office this morning: Marshal White's Statement “Charles Sinclair, Federal pris-| oner, escaped about 4:00 a. m,| April 23, from the Junean Federal | jail through the assistance of | some of the criminal element of Juneau, they having come on the Federal grounds and sawed the bars off the window opposite the ! ‘praca Where ‘Sinciair Wi atired: The hole sawed was 7x13 inches, and if Sinclair had not been a small man he could not have got ten through. By an examination of the place cut one could hardly believe he could get through on account of the projection of the end of a steel bar. His body must have been badly cut and ripped in getting through. “Like with all criminals who es- cape, his capture is expected dur ing the course of time.” It is thought at the U shal's office that the es made with outside aid, and. that the bar which was cut ffom tite small window on the west side of the Court House building, in the basement of which is located the Federal jail, was cut by someone outside the building with a saw, also fhat the heavy wire screen ring the inside of the window s clipped from the outside. It has not yet been ascertained how the bar cut in the big tank, making a hole approximately the | same si that in the window, was cut. Since an aisle two and a half or three feet wide separates y the bar inclosed tank from the outside wall, and the hole in the tank is about five feet from the window from which the escape was made, it was obviously done by someone inside. No saw was discoverad yesterday afternoon by the Marshals who thoroughly ex- amined the jail and grounds, and it has not been discovered how the saw got' into the tank. No other prisoners escaped, and all knowledge of Sinclair's escape was denied by the others imprison- Charles sen of from Marshal’s of } S. Mar- pe was ed in the tank, Marshal White de. clared. So far as is known Sin- clair has not been seen or heard from si his escape. ———,——— Manslaughter Charge Filed Against Former Policeman of Seattle SEATTIE, April 24-—A charge of manslaughter has been filed in the King County Superior Court against Ralph Osborn, former Se- attle policeman, who was blamed by the coroner’s jury for an auto- mobile crash in which Herbert * Feddama, a passenger in Oshorn’s car, received fatal injuries, Oshorn was dismissed from the force after a police investigation implicated him in the accident, despite his assertions his car had been stolen before the ecrash. ?nlxon Surface Ice Turns Into Slush TANANA, Alaska, April 24— " The surface fice in the Yukon River here has turned to slush making travel difficult. Oldtim- ers predict an early breakup, I 11-Year-Old Boy | Is Keynoter | | For Rotarians | April with | from Alaska to Southern Oregon present, the first District Convention open- | | ed yesterday with Leon Lev 11 years, Port Angele boy, as the keynote speaker, with an appeal for world peace, the sixth object of Ro- 12 H OHIO 24 [ l} | i | | - PRIMARY IS CENTER OF INTEREST TODAY Hoover's Presidential Can- didacy in Balance in | Buckeye State ; WASHINGTON 2 \\'H)lj Pre primar on pol lendar in Ohio, sylvania, Massachusetts and ka, the cent interest contest for to publican Ohi the retary of Hoover. Due April today's Penn- | Alas the R of is delegates th ational Convention in becanse of its bearing on Presidential candidac: of Sec-| Commere. Herbert to a lack of contest| in the voting in Massachusetts and | Pennsylvania the primaries there | are aflracting less attention. i i ~Ghio slato of. 51 dele: gates is pledged to Hoov The other slate, since the death of| Senator Willis, has shown 1«;-:1-{ ings toward a half dozen Republi-| bilities, including former | Frank 0. Lowden and Vice dent Charles G. Dawes. | Phe Democrat organization | slate of 48 delegates, selected by | the Ohio State Committee, pledged to former Senator Atlee Pomerene as first choice. | Pennsylvania will structed delegations of Republican convention City and 76 to the convention at Houston, In Massachusetts, where the Re- publicans elect 39 and the Demo-| crats. 36 delegates, there are only a few dontests in either ty o be sottled at the polls. While Alaskans have no vote for President in November, the Republicans have resorted to the primary system to select two dele- gates to Kansas City. The Demo- crats there are going throngh the formality of ratifying a slate of six delegates for Houston picked | by a Territorial convention and| pledged to support Gov, Alfred E. Smith. The Democratic delegation from Massachuselts is conceded to Gov.| Smith whose name is the only one appearing on the Presidential pref. erence ballot. The supporters of Gov. Smith. claim that the majori- ty of the Pennsylvania delegation, which is unopposed at the polls, will be composed of Smith men. STREAMS ARE OUT OF BANKS IN SIX STATES April 24— one is unin- | 79 to the| at Kansas | Democratic select ATLANTA, CGa., River banks in parts of six Southern States have vanished beneath spring torrents that shot toward the crest almost over night to isolate scores of towns and villages and which has al- ready caused millions of dollars worth of damage. :;Will Remain at Green Har- vices The swollen streams are re- ported in Georgia, Alabama, Flor- ida, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee. ——.——— Former Prospector in Alaska Takes Own Life SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 24 —George Diamond, aged 52 years, former prospector in the days of the Alaska gold rush, shot himself at his home in Berkeley yester- day. Diamond was & machinist and ha’ been in ill health for some months, his wife said. CAPT. WILKINS WILL NOT ELY; TO TAKE BOAT mor and Go to Norway _on First Ship . — s OSLO, April 24.—Steamer Mina of the Northern Ex- ploration Companv has re- ceived telegraphic instruc- tions to jprocced as mnear Green Harbor as possible to take Wilkins and Eielson and the plane to Norway. The Mina is expected to reach the mouth of the ice fjord Saturday. If the fliers and the plane are safely tak- en aboard, they should reach Tromsoe, Norway, next week. 0SLO, Norway, 24 from Capl. orge king from Green Harbor has decided to lgave for by steamer from Kings the e t date po Since reaching en Harbor, after the flight from Point Barrow ross the Arctic regions, Wilking and Pilot Ben Kielson have spent | most the time indoors resting. Wilkins has been kept busy writ ing a report of the flight. He talks little and not willing to reveal his future plans. Ben Eielson is attempting to re pair the damaged underpart the plane. J The first available boat for Nor way Wil olably et 5l before the middle of May when the ice breaks up. April Ad- | H. Wil say he Norway Jay at of WIRELESS GIVES OUT NEW YORK, April 24—-The New York Times, in a copyrighted article from Capt. George H. Wil kins, ) the plan; wireless, althongh carefully tested in vance of the flight, gave out fore the fliers landed, @ ning for many hours. Chird failure to arise from the ice at Point Barrow occurred on Friday, April Wilkins attribute: failure solely to the unluck Two days later, after 48 hou hard shoveling, the flie were the air and on their way. s ad he. run in WILL TAKE EIELSON 0SLO, April 24.—Capt. George Wilkins, in a dispatch received here, s he will take Ben Eiel- son with him on. his projected puth Pole flight. BYRD WILL BUY PLANE GREEN HARBOR, April 24 Capt. Wilkins has received a tele- graphic offer from Commander Richard 1. Byrd to buy Wilkins' plane for Byrd's South Polar trip. Wilkins replied he was un- able to accept the offe he s planning an Antarctic Expedi- tion, probably in September and has roughly drawn up his plans. WAS GREAT FEAT NEW YORK, April 24.—The Navigational difficulties that pt. Wilkins overcame in his Arctic flight was the most re- markable feature of the feat in the opinion of Dr. Isiah Bowman, Director of the American Geo- graphieal Society. . Bowman said Byrd and the Amundson - Ellsworth-Nobile Ex- pedition both traveled along the known meridians directly toward and away from the Pole while Wilking was forced to cut across meridians with constantly chang- ing compass deviation. P Dr. Bowman said Wilkins was very fortunate in having what clear weather he did experience. —_—————— Want to Buy Christmas Gift? Sale Is Held in Seattle on N.W. Cargo SEATTLE, April 24—Toys, fur coats, silk clothing, suits, scarfs, fancy work and lots of other Christmas gifts confained in 2,800 packages, all of which were car- ried on the stcamer Northwestern intended for Alaska, when she was wrecked last December, are being auctioned at the Seattle postoffice. Five days will be re- quired to dispose of all gifts which were submerged in salt water for several weeks. The articles are being auctioned at a small frac- tion of their worth, . Pitzme at Advices Colonel rl alight injuries Uew York today Mother Saves Small Child, But Mortally Wounded . | | SPOKANE, Wi Mrs. Henry By 20, saved her child from a terday afternoon but in doing s0 she received fatal burns and died later in the hospital She hurled can of flaming ine from the child but ly wounded herself. RW.STEWART TESTIFIES AT OIL HEARING Chairman of Board of S. O.: of Indiana Given C. | | chill, nine monti fiery death T. C. Profits WASHINGTON, April 24 Robert W. Stewart, Chairman of | the Board of the Standard Oil| Company of Indiana, testified to-| day before the Senate Teapot| Dome Committee that he was| awarded one-fourth share of the profits of the Continental Trad ing Company of nada even though he protested he did not want the money. | Stewart said H. 8. Osler, Presi-| dent of the Continental Trading | Company, handed 1 pack of Liberty bonds totaling $759, 000. Btewart under indictment for) having refused to answer questions of the committee. Iie agreed to reply to any querie directed at him. — - Two Little Boys Are Burned to Death in | Home Early This AM. SOUTH BEND, Wash., April 24 —Trapped in their beds, Louis, aged 6, and George, aged 3, sovs of Joseph Weiberg, were hurnél| to death when fire destroyed tha | home of their parents, carly this morning. The parents had built a fire-in the kitchen range and went to a barm, a quarter of al is mile away, to milk the cows and|sajlles, France, where they will left the boys sleeping upstairs The fire was discovered too late for the parents to return (o the a large erowd attempted to get ‘|a glimpse of Nancy, house and rescue their sons. 7 e », upper Greenly Tglang, . Belle Jsle Straits, now await on weather conditions to continve their trans-Atlantic Nancy Ann and Mate Are left; Baron von Huenefeldt, lower left, and Captain Herr repairs have been made fo the plane but the aviators a¥e storm FAR FROM INTENDED ROUTE POINT AMOUR GREEN LY ISLAND GULF OF ST IAWRENCI Map shows the direction of the intended route of the trio of brave trans-Atlantic fliers and the actual path that landed them at Greent(ly Island, a desolate speck of land off the southern coast of Labrador in the Straits of Belle Isle, 400 miles off their proposed route, 4 (International Tllustrated News) Baruch, Jr., Pays Big Sum for Exchange Seat Prohibition to Be Placed Before Both G.0.P. and Democrats NEW YORK, April 24, — The Association Against the Prohibi- tion Amendment in a campaign for repeal of the Bighteenth Amendment has announced that its representatives will appear be- fore the Resolutions Committee of beth the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, NEW YORK, April 24 M. Baruch, Jr, son of Baruch, one of the best Bernard Barney known who retired from active bu: to enter war work under Presi dent Wilson, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange tod for $350,000, from Clarence Wvyekoff. The elder ruch has taken little active interest in the stock market in recent years. The son is a director of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel & Tron Co. The record price of stock ex change membership s §375,000 Today's transaction was less than the previous sale. The membership of Howard Wasserman was transferred to Harold B. Blementhal of Phfiadel- phia, and that of I. M. Simon to John E. Simon of St. Louis at a nominal consideration. On High Seas for France KARACHI, India, April 24.— The former Maharajah TIndore and his wife, the former Naney Ann Miller, sailed today for Mur-l disembark for Paris. The depar- ture saroused much interest -and wnn stock market operators years ago, ! $6,000 | | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS BREMEN AND CREW AW AIT ON GREENLY ISLAND TO CONTINUE FLIGHT Koehl, who landed with only flight to bhoand on the land, PLANE BREMEN “STORM BOUND {Ford Relief Plane Also in | Same Fate—Ready to [ Fly to New York AGNES, Quebec, April 24.-—The Canadian Trans Continental Airways has been ad vised that the German plane Bre men and Ford relief plane are storm bound on Greenly Island \Snow is falling and there {strong northeast wind blowing ‘he Bremen is reporied to ha been repaired and ready to con Itinue the flight to New York BENNETT IS VERY ILL QUEBEC, April 24 Floyd | Bennett is resting somewhat more comfortably but is low. He passed a fairly night but his condition is still serious. Bennett started in the Ford relief plane with Bernt Bal hen for Greenly Island but sick prevented him from continu- g the flight [ PUBLISHE | ANNOUNC ! is a very IMENT | | Following the rule in | i | force in all daily newspaper | | | offices throughout the coun- | try and the custom with | most of the newspapers of | Alaska, The Empire will re- | quire, beginning May 1, that | | | all subscriptions must be | paid in advance. The need | for this rule is obvious. So | | | many people, particulaly in | Alaska, change their address- | | | es so often, that the loss | from the credit system is | too large to be consistent | with good business, The only | way to meet the situation is | to make the payment in ad- | vance rule apply to every- body. So there will be no exceptions. The management has had this matter under considera- | tion for a long time, and | | decision is the result of ma- ture deliberation. Publishers everywhere have found that the only satisfactory manner of handling newspaper eir- culation is to require pay- ment in advance. So, beginning May 1, sub- scriptions to The Empire must be paid in advance. - GREENLY ISLE PRICE TEN CENTS SENATOR SMOOT PRESENTS NEW TAX MEASURE Republican Majority of Com. Plan to Slice House Proposals WASHINGTON, April 24. —The Republican majority of the Senate Finance Com- mittee has recided on a cut of the House $280 000,000 tax reduction to $210,000,- 000. The $210.000,000 program was laid before the commit- tee today by Senmator Reed Smoot in behalf of the Re- publicans who have ‘a ma- jority on the Finance Com- m'ttee. 11 to 9 The Democrats mittee, who are 10,000 tax reduct w program under considera- on. Another meeting will be 1d Thursday when the majority roup expects to reviea tha hit The proposed Republican pro= ram follows Reduetion 13% with $82,000,000. Repeal of automobile tax with oss of §66,000,000. Repeal of estate tax with loss £ §7,000,000 Revision of surtax rates on ins omes between $18,000 and $70,- 100 with loss of §25,000,000, Increase in exemption allowed rporations from $2,000 to §3,- T Touk BEST2060,000. " on the com- urging $300,- n, todk the of per cent in tax per of corporation to 12% revenue rom ent loss [y Incregse in exemption under wdmission tax from 75 cents to §3 with loss of §17,000,000 Repeal of taxes on wine and lmrml! beverages with loss of §1,= 20,000, —— ., PRIMARY VOTE - HEAVIER THAN THAT OF 1326 Gains Shows in Local Pri- mary Vote as Compared’ to that Two Years Ago* votes had been the rritorial - primary here p. m. today, was 124 more than had been the same hour in the pri- maries two years ago. It was apparent that vote this year would be some heavier than it was in 1926, bat indications were it would be mueh wt of the potential strength of the town. It is estimated that there are in excess of 1,200 quali- fied voters in the community but. leaders did not believe more ti 800 would go to the polls today. Gain in First precinct number one, the areas adjacent to the City Hall where the polling booths are Jo- cated, 260 votes had been cast-at midafternoon. This was 90 more than at the same hour in 1926, The total vote there in the last primary was 306 which is expegt- ed to be- exceeded considerably this year. At precinct number two, the downtown ward, 107 had voted at 3 p. m., or just one more than in In prec t number three, ontinued on Page Eight.) prad B A, A8 L1 ¢ Four-Year-Old Seattle Boy Smokes Cigars A cast total in election This cast at of the total SEATTLE, April 24—Freddie Rigg, who the age of four years smokes clgars, is physically & develspod one year and a half b 1 is one year above the as oy age, but his blood pressare high and he tends towards anen Dr. Ira Brown, head of the attle School of Health ment, said: “I feel medical will learn a lesson from this Tobacco inereases the flow liva, thus aiding the child’s d tion. Cresote in tobacco fermentation of food for when a baby.” P e 3